If you reduce the price $18,000 for the roof, they may still come back and ask for new flooring, or updated plumbing, or whatever.

If so, you should focus your energy on those items. 

and cant be reduced to a 60 second sound bite. * "these markets are out of control!"

@Jason Holloway a lot of high net worth individuals are doing planning now since the $11M exemption is only in place till 2025 and then reduces to $5M.

I see listings reducing price in every state by tiny amounts when they didn't get the moon and movie star price now.

If you have sporadic income it presents many challenges.If you have family that would be willing to cosign that might help, but given they'd be a non occupant cbwr it would reduce the FHA LTV to 75% on a 2-4 unit.

Might do better on slab, but the issue seems to be in traffic areas the tenants just the energy from walking seems to bump the planks apart.

Your tax compliance fees can be drastically reduced if you structure the entities correctly.

As a college student working part time, I have been able to identify my spending habits and reduce them considerably.

Taking a cash out is a liability (bigger loan) that will not reduce the amount of gains you had on the property.